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Site Updates
and Changes:
For easy viewing, significant
updates to the
Big
Hole are documented on this page.
October 31,
2009. Added Old Bill Williams to The
Men and Bill Williams
Blackfoot Adventure to Wild Tales and Lies.
October 11,
2009. Changed the picture of Sir
William Drummond Stewart by Alfred Jacob Miller and added an Alfred
Jacob Miller drawings and pictures to Caught with His Pants Down,
Pack Train Life & Routines, and Alfred
Jacob Miller.
August 27,
2009. Added About Malachite - A
Short Biography to the home page.
July 12,
2009. Added to References, and also
some housekeeping updates.
May 19,
2009. Added How to Make Charcoal: Burn
Your Firewood Twice to Plans Designs and How-To's.
April 9,
2009. Removed The Five Forts from the Forts
and replaced it with Four Forts Along
the South Platte. Also added individual sections for Fort
George, Fort Lancaster, Fort
Vasquez and Fort Jackson. A
subsection was added to Fort Jackson titled Fort
Jackson Remote Trading Camp Inventory.
April 1,
2009. Added John C Hawken to the Men
and 'In' to the Glossary.
March 18,
2009. Added Using Tobacco in the
Mountains, with subsections The Shuck
Cigarillo and Cigarettes in the
Southwest to Everyday Living.
Added Taos Lightning to Myths
of the Mountain Man.
March 3,
2009. Added Women as Protectors
to Everyday Living and The
Women.
January 15,
2009. Made minor additions to Cleanliness
and Sanitation. Rewrote the major section Women.
Added A Mountain-Based
Flintlock Conversion Service in 1843? to Guns
and Moses "Black" Harris and the
Putrified Forest to Wild Tales and Lies.
December 21,
2008. Added Glass Trade Beads as a
subsection to Trade Goods, Personal
Adornment. Updated Colter's Run
in Wild Tales with accounts related by Colter
to John Bradbury and to Thomas James. Also added Spoken
Language of the Mountain Men to Everyday
Living.
December 03,
2008. Added Spooning and Black
Water to Glossary, and made minor additions
to Cooking & Eating Buffalo,
Prairie Travel, Accidents,
Cold Weather Sleeping, Pack Train Life &
Routines, Celebrity Guns and Horses,
Celebrations, Cleanliness &
Sanitation, Making
Coffee, Literacy
and Reading. Also added a category to Everyday
Living; Using Tobacco
ovember 23,
2008. Added John Hatcher Goes to
Hell and Meets the Old Gentleman to Wild Tales
and Lies.
November 20,
2008. Added William Tharp to The
Men.
November 2,
2008. Added Making a Wooden
Shipping Case to Plans.
October 26,
2008. Added Tricked into Eating
Dogmeat to Wild Tales and Lies, and Early
1800's Shoes to Clothing.
October 19,
2008. Added Literacy and Reading and Cleanliness
and Sanitation to Everyday
Living Added Moses "Black" Harris
to The Men
September 26,
2008. Added Fort McKenzie to The
Forts and Posts
September 6,
2008. Added Hunting
Buffalo and Chased by Pawnee to Wild Tales and
Lies and Fort Piegan to Forts
& Posts.
September 1,
2008. Added Edward Rose to The
Men, and Edward Rose Battles the
Blackfeet to Wild Tales and Lies.
August 29,
2008. Added Francis A Chardon to
The Men
August 12,
2008. Rewrote section How to Make a
Powder Horn.
May 28,
2008. Added Eating Beaver Tail:
A Mountain Man Delicacy or a Mountain Man Joke To Myths.
May 15,
2008. General Site Maintenance.
March 9,
2008. Added the following section to Myths:
Cheating Indians of Their Valuable Furs in Exchange for
Worthless Trinkets.
January 16,
2008. Added Alexander Harvey to The
Men.
January 8,
2008. Added Fort Davey Crockett
to Forts.
December 17,
2007. Added Joe Meek Stands Guard Duty,
Fitzpatrick's Blackfoot
Adventure and Jim Bridger Leads by Example
to Wild Tales.
December 5,
2007. Added the term "Judy
Fitzsimmons" and "Fall to
the Kettle" to Glossary. Added Cooking
and Cookware to Everyday Living; Disputing
Courage and A Church Service For
Mountain Men to Wild Tales.
November 21,
2007. Added James Kipp to The
Men and Lucifers as a subcategory to Trade
Goods.
October 27,
2007. Added John Hatcher to The
Men, Celebrity Guns to Everyday
Life.
October 21,
2007. Added Joe Meek Rescues His Woman
to Wild Tales and Lies and Black
Powder Production Through Time to Black
Powder. Supplemented Accidents
and Mishaps and Funerals. Added William
McGaa to The Men.
October 11,
2007. Added "Big Jim" Hunts
Sandhill Crane; "Big Jim"
Hunts Antelope; "Big Jim"
Kills a Venomous Serpent; "Big
Jim" First Adventure on Guard Duty; "Big
Jim" Challenges a Buffalo Bull; "Big
Jim" 2nd Adventure on Guard Duty; to Greenhorn
Mountaineer.
September 25,
2007.
Added Doc Newell Takes a Scalp and Blackfoot
Attack Against the St. Louis Missouri Fur Company to Wild
Tales and Lies, Drinker Hunts
Porcupine to Greenhorn Mountaineer and additional quotes to Quotes.
September 16,
2007. Added Marie's Grizz
Encounter and The Death of Drouillard
to Wild Tales and Lies.
September 1,
2007. Added "Blackfoot"
John Smith and Counting Pawnee
to Wild Tales. Added Robert Campbell's
description of the Battle of
Pierre's Hole.
August 12,
2007. Added Attack on the
Yellowstone to Wild Tales, added Accidents
& Mishaps and The Greenhorn Mountaineer
to Everyday Living,
added additional phrases to Quotes in Everyday
Living. Added subsections Osborne
Russell and His First Buffalo Hunt, and Osborne
Russell Encounters His First Grizzly to The
Greenhorn Mountaineer.
July 28,
2007. Added Pack Train Life-Mess; Camp
Set Up; Guard Duty, Celebrations,
Food and Starving
Times to Everyday
Life and added the Battle of Pierre's
Hole.
July 15,
2007. Added How to Make a Powder Horn
to Plans, Designs and How-To's
June 1,
2007. Added Crucified by
Prickly Pears and Beating Off a Griz to Wild Tales; Sir
William Drummond Stewart to The Men; Warm
Weather Sleeping to Everyday Life;
and 1851
Thoughts about Indian versus White styles of Clothing to Clothing.
May 27,
2007. Added Dining Formalities
at Forts and Posts to Everyday Life.
May 12,
2007. Added Lucien Fontenelle to The
Men.
March 23,
2007. Added a description of the Whitman
Massacre.
March 10,
2007. Major edits and improvements to Clothing.
March 2, 2007. Added Softening Leather by
Chewing and Green River Knife to Myths of the Mountain Man
and J.Russell & Co. and the Green River Knife
to Knives.
January 28,
2007. Added Evading Liquor Laws
to Trade Alcohol and Nathaniel
Wyeth to The Men. Added Fort
Union Smallpox Epidemic as a sub topic under S.S.
St. Peters Smallpox Epidemic. Added a description of use of snow
shelters to Cold Weather Sleeping.
January 5
2007. Added winter encampment descriptions by Warren
Ferris and Osborne Russell
to Winter Camp, Everyday
Life and added a description of Christmas
1839. Added a more complete discussion of Trade
Alcohol to Food and Drink. Added a
short biography of William Craig and Antonio
Montero to The
Men, and a description of the Death of
Vanderburgh.
December
20,
2005. Added the term "Fleece"
to Glossary. Added Preserving
Meat and Holiday Celebrations
to Everyday Life.
December 9,
2006. Added Calvin T. Briggs, and Marcelino
Baca to The
Men. Added Trade Whiskey to
Myths, and Pack
Train Life & Routine to Everyday Life.
November
23,
2006. Added Prairie Travel
and Wages & Benefits 1842 to Everyday
Life.
November
18,
2006. The References section was redone
to better reflect standard bibliographical methods, and was further broken
down into Primary Sources, Secondary
Sources, Living
History/Reenacting, and Historical
Fiction. Alfred Jacob Miller
was added to The Men.
November
11, 2006. Added Turkey Hunting by
Moonlight, Butchering a Buffalo,
and Cooking & Eating Buffalo
to Everyday Life, and Medicine
Wolf to Glossary.
November 3,
2006. Added Making Coffee to Everyday
Life and added Solitary Loner and Hawken
Rifle to the Myths
subsection.
October 28, 2006.
Added Wages &
Benefits-Fort Union 1851 and Dog-A Culinary
Delight to Everyday Life.
October 18,
2006. Added Notable Quotes , Pitching
a Tent (Tipi), Preparing Robes and Hides,
Mosquitoes, Securing
Horses, and Indian Blanket Coat,
to Everyday
Life. Added the term Dropsy, Paletot,
and Osnaburgh to
the Glossary.
October
7, 2006. Added a section describing Indian
Sign Language. Added a description of a "Winter
Camp" by Rufus Sage from his book, "Rocky
Mountain Life". Added the following terms to Glossary:
Vara, Dearborn,
Beeves, Specie.
Added a section, Everyday
Living with subsections for Dogs, Law
and Justice, Kitchen
& Tableware; and Funerals, Buffalo
Hunting, Cold Weather Sleeping, Ice
House, Making Lead Shot, Sign
Language. Finally added a section for Myths,
with subsections for Beards.
May
14, 2006. Added the following terms to Glossary:
Bois de Bache; Medicine
Dog; Carcajou; Nimrod;
Gill; and added the following sub-topics to Food
& Drink: pomme blanc (white
apple); Dog; Prairie
Dog; Prairie Potato; Red
Root; Bear; Mountain
Sheep; Bitters; High
Wine; Also added "Sound Sleepers"
to Wild Tales. Cleaning
Leather Clothing and Buckskin was added to Clothing.
April
27, 2006. Added a description of Fort
Uncompahgre and Map to Forts & Posts.
April
17, 2006. Added a Map showing the
west bound route taken by Wilson Price Hunt and the Overland Astorians,
1810-1813.
April
15, 2006. Added the subsection How to Cast
Small Lead Bars to Plans and Designs, added a
biography of Ramsay Crooks and a Map
showing his eastbound route from Astoria to St. Louis.
March
11, 2006. Reorganized Transportation;
added material to Horses and made it a separate
subsection.
February
18, 2006. Added Walker's Plunge to Wild
Tales.
February
11, 2006. Major update and reorganization of Guns.
Added new subsections for Gauge-Caliber
Conversion, Lancaster Rifle (American
Rifle) ,
English Rifle, the New
English Rifle, J&S Hawken
Rifles, Also added short biographies of Jacob
and Samuel Hawken, and a description of their St. Louis gun shop
business.
January
22, 2006. Added a short biography about David
Thompson.
January
7, 2006. Added a description of the use and types of Dog
Sleds to Transportation. Added
additional information to Keelboats and to Pirogues.
Additional sources added to References.
December 18,
2005. Added a section about Steamboats
to Transportation and added a subsection
describing the S.S. Yellow Stone, the first
steamboat to reach Fort Union. Added a description of Small
Pox to Mountain Medicines and a section about the devastating Small
Pox epidemic spread by the S.S. St. Peter's.February 19, 2005
added Dick Wootten Biography
December 8,
2005. Added the term Cavendish
Tobacco to the Glossary. Added Hunting
Antelope by Smell to Wild Tales, and
reorganized the Wild Tales section
November 26,
2005. Made a major reorganization to The Women
and added Thanadelthur, Isabel
Gunn, and Marie-Anne Gaboury. Added the
term: a la facon du pays to
Glossary.
November 17,
2005. Added Ram Rods and Gun
Flints to the Guns section.
November 3,
2005. Major Upgrade to the Trade Goods section with the following
subsections added: Blankets, Clothing, Fabrics
and Sewing, Foods
and Consumables, Guns
& Firearms Supplies, Iron
& Steel Tools, Personal
Adornment, Personal
Hygiene, Writing and Records, Horse
Gear, Cooking, Miscellaneous.
November 3, 2005, added
the following terms to Mountain Medicine, Alum,
and Glauber Salts, and made minor
additions to Glossary.
October 8, 2005,
added descriptions of Powder Horns and Black
Powder to the section on Guns
October 1, 2005, Louis
Vasquez, Biography
September 2,
2005, added the following terms to Glossary:
Chintz; Cochineal;
Foolscap; Locofoco;
Lucifer Match; Martingales;
Melton; Pantaloons;
Pongie; Quires;
Snaffle; Sursingles;
Riband; Water
Crackers.
September 2,
2005, Francis Ziba Branch,
Biography
August 26, 2005,
added a search function to this site to the
Home Page
August 24, 2005, description of Buffalo
Robes added to Clothing
August
15, 2005, Johnson Gardner, Biography
August
6, 2005, Antoine Godin, Biography
May 18,
2005
Added
“Colter’s Escape” to Wild
Tales and Lies
May 15,
2005
Milton
G Sublette,
Biography
May 15,
2005
Wild
Tales and Lies,
hair-raising adventures, humorous tales and out-right lies told by the
mountain men
May 7,
2005
Alexander
Sinclair,
Biography
May 7,
2005
Peter
Sarpy
Biography
May 1,
2005
Description
and History of Fort
Union
April 28,
2005
Description
and History of Fort
Hall
April 26, 2005
Map and Description of North
American Geopolitical Divisions - 1803
April 22, 2005
, Description and History of Fort William (
Fort
Laramie
)
April 12, 2005
added Map showing locations of Rendezvous
and important forts
April 12, 2005
added Rendezvous Descriptions for each year
from 1825-1840
April 12, 2005
added Site Map
March 24, 2005
added James Clyman Biography
March 5, 2005
added major subsection Mountain Medicine
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